Divers free more cave boys on Day 2 of rescue mission

Phyllis King

Chief of the rescue mission, Narongsak Osottanakorn, declined to comment on the identity of the four people brought out in the evening, saying updates would be supplied at a news conference that is scheduled to be held late on Monday.

"All five will be brought out at the same time today", said the head of the rescue mission, Narongsak Osottanakornon, on Tuesday.

The 8 boys who have already been taken from the cave by diver are thought to be largely healthy after their ordeal, despite having been trapped inside the cave with little food or water for more than two weeks.

Four boys and their soccercoach remain in the cave. "Everyone safe", the Thai navy SEALs, who led the rescue effort, posted on Facebook.

The rest four boys and their coach that are still trapped in the cave will be pulled out in a final mission that has resumed on Tuesday. But officials waited several hours before confirming their rescue.

The rescue workers need 20 hours before the third operation, Osatanakorn said Monday afternoon, according to a Guardian reporter. Other divers were on guard along the unsafe first kilometer of the passageway.

After pondering for days how to get the 13 out, a rescue operation was launched on Sunday when four of the boys were brought out, tethered to rescue divers. He said it was out of respect for the families whose sons were still trapped in the cave.

"We have to quarantine them for a little while due to fear of infection", Osotthanakorn said.

A team of foreign divers and Thai Navy SEALS guided the boys during a nine-hour operation through almost 4 km of sometimes submerged, pitch-dark channels from where they have been trapped for more than a fortnight.

Somboon Sompiangjai is the father of one of the 12 boys.

"When the first group came, their temperatures were low", he said. The extraction started on Sunday and eight of the children have been successfully brought out.

Jesada said they were uncertain what type of infections the boys could face "because we have never experienced this kind of issue from a deep cave". "I would like to see the love and cooperation over the past 17 days continue for the sake of national development", he said. "This is the lesson I want Thailand to remember, this is the lesson I want the world to see". "Very courageous and talented people!"

Soccer's governing body, FIFA, has invited the boys to the World Cup final in Moscow on Sunday if they're well enough to attend. George Grow was the editor.

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